American voters want President Donald Trump’s administration to use trade leverage to protect American businesses from European Union regulations, according to a new poll first shared with The Daily Wire.
The EU-US Forum surveyed likely general election voters and found that Americans view two specific European Union directives — the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive — as bad for American businesses at home. The EU-US Forum is an American nonprofit organization working to advance the president’s agenda in Europe and combat “the EU’s radical leftism.”
“Our latest national survey of likely general election voters in America shows that they view the European Union’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations as unfair to American companies, chiefly because they expect these rules to raise costs and hurt American competitiveness,” the forum said in a release.
“A clear majority want the Trump administration to protect U.S. companies from the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) by using ongoing trade negotiations as leverage to shield American companies from EU overreach,” they shared. “Elected officials who support President Trump in his leadership to confront CSRD and CS3D in trade negotiations stand to benefit politically, as voters say they are more likely to re-elect lawmakers who fight to free U.S. businesses from excessive European regulation.”
Almost six in 10 Americans surveyed said that it is important for American officials to use trade negotiations in order to roll back the European Union’s ESG regulations on American companies, according to the poll, conducted via an internet panel between November 11 and 12 with a margin of error of +/-3%.
Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said the European Union regulations would unfairly impact United States businesses. Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they would be more likely to vote for a member of Congress who pushes the president to use trade negotiations to stop the European Union from putting strict ESG regulations on American companies. Seventy-one percent said that the European Union’s compliance regulations would raise costs on American families. Seventy-two percent think that the reporting requirements would be problematic for smaller U.S. suppliers.
The EU-US Forum argues that their polling shows that the EU directives are unfair for American businesses and will be expensive for American families and that the Trump administration should use its trade leverage to stop them. They also argue that lawmakers who align with the president’s agenda “stand on solid political ground and can credibly claim they are protecting American workers, businesses, and exporters from Europe’s red tape agenda.”
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive requires large companies to share information on “what they see as the risks and opportunities arising from social and environmental issues, and on the impact of their activities on people and the environment.” The alleged goal is to help investors, stakeholders, and civil society organizations to evaluate “the sustainability performance of companies as part of the European green deal.”
Along similar lines, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive gives companies an “obligation” to “conduct appropriate human rights and environmental due diligence” with “respect to their operations, operations of their subsidiaries, and operations of their business partners in companies’ chains of activities.”
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